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Santa Clara County has chosen New York-based consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal to make financial recommendations for 574-bed Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, in San Jose, Calif., according to a report in the San Jose Business Journal.

TriMedx offers medical equipment management solutions to help reduce expenses, optimize service and enhance revenue. Currently, TriMedx serves over 500 customers nationwide including hospitals, health systems, laboratories, imaging centers, ASCs and clinics.

The Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital in Indianapolis is celebrating its fifth anniversary, after opening its doors in March 2005, according to a release by the hospital.

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is moving forward with plans to build a rehabilitation and orthopedic hospital after year-long plans for a merger with Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth System fell through in February, according to a report from the Central Penn Business…

Construction has begun on the 152,000-square-foot, 52-bed Goleta (Calif.) Valley Cottage Hospital, part of Cottage Health System, according to a report by the Daily Sound.

Dallas-based Children's Medical Center has announced plans for an expansion that would include the construction of a pediatric outpatient facility, including an ambulatory surgery center, in Southlake, Texas, according to a report in the Star Local News.

An as-yet unnamed consulting group will run Santa Clara Valley (Calif.) Medical Center, following the departures of the director of the hospital and the CEO of its health system, according to a report by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Baptist Health System, which operates five acute-care hospitals in the San Antonio area, has purchased a parcel of land in New Braunfels, Texas, where it plans to build a new hospital, according to the San Antonio Business Journal.

The new Oklahoma Heart Hospital South Campus has earned Medicare certification and state certification to treat Medicaid patients, according to a report by the Journal Record.

Fewer than one in three medical residents graduating from New Jersey medical schools said they intended to establish a practice in the state, according to a 2009 "Resident Exit Survey" prepared by the New Jersey Council of Teaching Hospitals.